It’s a little ghetto and you might have to refresh the URL if you can’t manage to finish the download within a 8 hour or so timeframe (hence having to use a downloader - i use JDownloader 2) but it won’t reset. If the URL expires you can get a new one through Fiddler and update it in your download manager and continue the download. You lose no progress.
It also proves without a doubt that PC is downloading a whole 95gb - not 60gb or fewer.
Plus if you have a friend with a better connection than yours you can ask them kindly to download it for you (provide them with the URL or go to their place and do this stuff) and then put it on some storage medium and install it on your own PC.
Sweet got it, downloads still going strong after the first url refresh, no reason this shouldn’t work. Have you tried with forza 7 yet or are you still downloading as well? Let us know if you manage to test good sir
Still downloading, but I see no reason why it shouldn’t work, it worked for FH3 and other games (Quantum Break) and there was no major change in their distribution system afaik
The store is essentially doing the same thing, except it also downloads some licensing information first (your cdkey basically), then downloads the big file in multiple chunks and installs/extracts it - basically what you are gonna do with powershell
The licensing information is the reason you gotta download a few megabytes through the store yourself first.
thank you for the solution
but one question
after weeks there will be updates at futer for the game
after your download method i can update the game normally like
any app form windows store or not .?
Hi, I used this method and I finally could install it, I already used this method last year to avoid redownloading FH3 and Gears 4 after a system reset.
So you’re good to go, keep downloading the 95GB file, once it’s done enter the command and it will install on the default location (change it before if you want), then you can install the add-ons from the Store.
thank you very much for sharing this, im going to try it if they dont come up with a fix soon. Its hours now for release, I tried DL this 7 times. My Pc has not turned off sense the release of the preload. Please post your success with this way of downloading.
So far, so good. Have had to update the URL once and it picked up where it left. Hopefully I can get it all downloaded and installed right. Will update when it finishes.
Not working so well for me… Store download keeps getting stuck at 101.1MB and I think the download is not getting far enough to generate the main URL needed for the file?
(edit): Finally got it to generate a link for the EAppxBundle file but then it gets stuck at 88.139MB in the download manager…
What helped is going to your C drive under my PC, right click, properties, clean disk, and clear out the delivery optimisation files (generally this is the same size as your previous forza download before it failed). Also run WSRESET tool, restart PC and try the download again. I find this completely removes the forza files, and starts new, I grabbed the link when it was at approx 50mb into download in the store. Didnt need to refresh my link, download has successfully completed but cant test as of yet as friend downloaded on their PC for me.
I cleared all the WS cache,removed the partly downloaded files and fiddled around with a few other things with that but was still getting stuck.
Only just a few minutes ago I tried starting the WS download through a US server VPN and that seemed to generate the proper download sequence and give me a good URL for download manager! Downloading steadily at 1-2MB/s now.
The WS download gets to 101.1MB or 181.1MB, then says ‘checking product files’ and ‘calculating download size’ and gets stuck on ‘downloading’ and never progresses. are there server-side issues now?
